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More than 230 million people use ChatGPT to ask health and wellness questions every week. Meanwhile, four out of five physicians are considering using AI in their practices, and Claude for Healthcare, a large-scale language model launched in January, is poised to transform medical billing. As new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in healthcare emerge every day, healthcare leaders are faced with the paradox of urgency to implement and persistent reluctance to scale up. There are also signs that AI could improve access to medical information and guidance for vulnerable populations, with 600,000 health-related queries to ChatGPT coming from underserved rural…

A new study shows that consuming the equivalent of two cups of coffee increases the brain’s ability to temporarily quiet motor signals in response to sensory input. The results show that daily habits can alter the results of neurological tests, which can influence the diagnosis of certain cognitive conditions. The study was published in the journal Clinical Neurophysiology. Measuring electrical activity in the living human brain presents unique challenges. Neurologists often rely on non-invasive techniques to safely investigate how different brain regions communicate. One common tool is transcranial magnetic stimulation, which involves placing electromagnetic coils on a person’s scalp. The…

Written by Lauren Cross, Midwest Survey, Midwest Survey May 8, 2026 Rising cancer rates in Iowa and other agricultural states are becoming too much for communities to ignore, experts said Thursday. At the Midwest Research on Pesticides and Public Health panel discussion, speakers noted growing concerns about environmental exposures associated with industrial agriculture, including pesticides, nitrate pollution, PFAS, and radon. https://youtu.be/Z78Fgb1iXV4?si=_wvJnQL6lhHn5Nly The virtual event featured oncologist Dr. Richard Deming of Des Moines’ MercyOne Cancer Center, investigative journalist Carrie Gillum, Iowa Environmental Council policy director Kelly Johansen, food and water surveillance research director Amanda Starbuck, and Iowa resident Lisa Lawler, who…

In March, it lost the top spot to Johnson & Johnson’s immunotherapy drug Tremfya, but AbbVie’s rival drug Skyrizi has regained the top spot in advertising. AbbVie spent $46.8 million advertising Skyridi in April, an increase of $4.7 million from the previous month, putting the drug comfortably ahead of Tremfya. J&J’s drugs came in second with the biggest spending cut of $10.6 million, according to data shared by iSpot.tv analysts with Fierce Pharma Marketing. AbbVie’s other leading immunologist, Rinvoke, held onto third place in April, but in a close race with J&J, Rinvoke’s ad spend was just $200,000 behind Tremfya.…

Organ transplantation remains the basic treatment for end-stage organ failure. Although conventional broad-spectrum immunosuppression effectively controls acute rejection, it cannot address chronic rejection and is associated with long-term side effects such as infections, malignancies, and metabolic disorders. Achieving donor-specific immune tolerance while minimizing global immunosuppression has become a central goal of transplant immunology. Regulatory T cells are recognized as master arbiters of immune homeostasis within complex transplanted immune networks. Rather than acting through a single pathway, Tregs use a coordinated set of precise mechanisms to build a robust defense against graft rejection. Published in magazine volume 2, article number 23…

Osteoporosis, a common skeletal disease, is characterized by decreased bone mass and deterioration of bone microstructure, making bones more porous and more susceptible to fracture. Bone health is maintained through a continuous remodeling process driven by two specialized cell types: osteoblasts, which build bone, and osteoclasts, which destroy bone. Disruption of this balance plays a central role in the progression of the disease. Current treatments broadly focus on slowing bone resorption by osteoclasts or promoting bone formation by osteoblasts. One widely used approach is anti-sclerostin therapy. It promotes bone formation by reactivating bone lining cells (BLCs), a population of dormant…

Regions with high socio-economic inequality are more susceptible to the effects of cold weather, while regions with high levels of wealth and urbanization are at greater risk during heat waves and lower risk during cold waves. This is shown by a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a center supported by the La Caixa Foundation. The result is natural healthfor the first time quantified how socio-economic inequalities influence temperature-related mortality across urban and rural populations in 32 European countries. The health impacts of climate change are already measurable and will increase in the coming decades unless…

Mental health clinicians are more than five times more likely to think that an evolutionary explanation of anxiety is beneficial to patients than the genetic approach currently taught to trainees and psychiatrists in the UK and US, a new study has shown. The University of Cambridge-led study also found that clinicians in the UK and Ireland were three times more likely to rate a human evolutionary perspective on anxiety as useful for their practice and understanding compared to genetic explanations. The researchers argue that explaining how anxiety has helped our species survive and thrive (essentially, a naturally evolved defense response…

As the FDA decision date for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) treatment drug Delamiocell approaches, Capricore Therapeutics has filed a lawsuit against its U.S. commercial partner NS Pharma and its parent company Nippon Shinyaku. In a breach of contract lawsuit filed in New Jersey Superior Court, Capricor alleges that NS Pharma failed to “adequately prepare” for the commercial launch of Delamiocell. The San Diego rare disease expert added in the complaint that NS Pharma “dropped the pencil” and halted preparations for launch after the FDA first rejected Delamiocell in a complete response letter (CRL) last July. Capricor is seeking an injunction…

Recent research suggests that temporary states of sexual arousal may cause men to treat women as sexual objects, shifting their focus from psychological characteristics to sexualized physical characteristics. This change occurs independently of a person’s general personality traits, providing evidence that momentary biological states play a central role in how people perceive others. This study Journal of Sex Research. The authors of the new study sought to better understand the immediate and short-term causes of sexual objectification. Sexual objectification occurs when a person is reduced to their sexual function and their mental and emotional characteristics are ignored. In heterosexual situations,…